Gem-Knights Deck #774247 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon large Fairy/DARK and Gem-Knight Fusion monsters (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Gem-Knight Lady Brilliant Diamond) through Brilliant Fusion, Mutiny in the Sky and Darklord Dance, then convert with 3000+ ATK bodies.; Recursion-driven grind through Darklord Gulgolet, Darklord Contact and Mutiny in the Sky from the GY, with hand traps protecting the engine.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a searcher (Gem-Knight Nepyrim, Indulged Darklord or Darklord Djehuty), search a Darklord or Gem-Knight, then reach a Fusion Summon via Brilliant Fusion or Darklord Dance. Hand traps are held for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Herald of Green Light or Buio from hand to negate the first Spell or monster effect, then Fusion or Special Summon into the Extra Deck threat. Requires the illegal third Herald of Orange Light to be cut to one copy before the hand-trap plan is reliable.
• Recovery: Banishment of the Darklords and Darklord Gulgolet search or re-summon Darklords from the GY; Mutiny in the Sky recovers a Fusion engine from the GY.
• After siding: No side deck is present (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated.

Why it scores here

The list is illegal: Herald of Orange Light is run three times against a Limited cap of one, so the score is structural and theoretical only, capped low per the rubric. The system opens a Fusion or searcher-driven line in most hands (P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.99; P(at least one of the 7 archetype-core copies) is about 0.64), but the engine is split across Darklord (26 copies) and Gem-Knight (11 copies) sub-archetypes with no exact-name purity, which raises brick risk. Interaction is layered (12 negation-text cards, 12 removal-text cards, 3 hand traps), and the Fusion ceiling is high, but no recorded boards exist, so floor and median are text-only inference. The deck has no side deck, which caps adaptability, and it has no matchup or tournament data, so meta and matchup scores are provisional. Popularity and archetype usage were not used as evidence of strength, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Combo secondary; structural weights used as published, D13 kept with provisional score. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); hard_garnet_burden (-2); engine_conflict (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*56 + 0.20*45 = 53.8; modifiers -12 gives 41.8; Illegal-deck cap applied gives 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Searcher density (22 searcher-text cards) gives high starter access
• Layered interaction: 12 negation-text, 12 removal-text and 3 hand traps
• High Fusion Extra Deck ceiling (Eveningstar, First Darklord, Lady Brilliant Diamond)
• Recursion from the GY (Gulgolet, Contact, Mutiny)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count: Herald of Orange Light run 3 times against a limit of 1
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Split Darklord/Gem-Knight engine with 0% exact-name purity
• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Brilliant Fusion (1 copy) and Mutiny in the Sky (3) gate most Fusion lines
• Hand traps depend on the Herald cards, one of which is illegal beyond one copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Herald of Orange Light run 3 vs limit 1 (Illegal); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Probabilities computed from the main-deck list; Card text and composition from the resolved list
• Inferred: Consistency estimates (D1, D2) from hypergeometric draws and text; Interaction density (D7) from text flags; Going-first and going-second scores; Combo ceiling (D3) from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck present, so post-side performance cannot be assessed